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Award winner Rachel Munn, centre, with host Andy Grant and Making Space CEO Rachel Peacock

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Super-fit Andrew O'Donoghue who is due to finish his daily 4.57km run challenge in August next year

Wigan war veteran's astonishing 457-day fund-raising challenge Charles Graham

Shane Sutton competing in the international Strongman opens.

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In evidence presented to MPs, a whistleblower has said then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab ‘failed to grasp the situation' in Afghanistan (image: Getty Images)

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Yvonne Fovargue, MP for Makerfield

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Tony Blair

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Lisa Nandy

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Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has been accused of putting interpreters’ lives at risk in Afghanistan (Photo: Getty Images)

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Andy Burnham

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Lisa Nandy MP

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Taliban takes control of Kabul just days after US-led coalition left Afghanistan Sarah Wilson

People have been attempting to flee the country. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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